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Parallel Python
A lecture from ASPP 2024. The slides and exercises are in slides/ and exercises/, respectively.
A really cool example of using asyncio with the dakos program is in extras/.
Lecture outline
- Part 1: Processes, threads and THE GIL
- Part 2: Hands-on investigations of embarrassingly parallel problems A. Multithreading with NumPy B. The multiprocessing package C. Blending processes and threads
- Part 3: Going further and wrap-up
Online resources
- Online textbook on operating systems, processes, threads, etc.
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
- Chapters 4, 13, and 26 are particularly relevant.
- But the whole book is interesting.
- Report of a talk on Python concurrency types, with focus on sub-interpreters.
- Comparison of multithreading, multiprocessing, and asyncio.
- Async Python: The Different Forms of Concurrency
- Note the code snippets are a little outdated.
- Example of webscraping with asyncio
- Sub-interpreters in 3.12